Senior Data and Software Engineer

Affinity Solutions (Affinity) is the leading consumer purchase insights company. We provide a complete view of U.S. and U.K. consumer spending, across and between brands, via exclusive access to fully permissioned data from over 100 million consumers. Our proprietary AI technology, Comet™, transforms these purchase signals into actionable insights for business and marketing leaders to drive optimal outcomes and build lasting customer relationships. Visit www.affinitysolutions.com to discover how we’re shaping the future of consumer purchase insights.

About Your Role:

Affinity is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data and Software Engineer (Integrations) to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust data structures and controls for privacy features and services, enabling secure multi-party collaboration. This position requires a deep understanding of various data technologies, cloud environments, data clean rooms, and AI concepts.

Your Responsibilities:

• Design and implement data privacy features and services to enable secure multi-party collaboration, including query constraints, data clean room construction, deployment, and monitoring at scale
• Uphold data governance standards and practices, ensuring compliance with data quality standards
• Implement and enforce data security measures to protect sensitive data, including personally identifiable information (PII) and financial data
• Leverage SQL and Python programming proficiency to extract, transform, clean, and interpret large data volumes (200BIL+ records)
• Design highly performant data structures to ensure optimal storage and retrieval of data
• Utilize advanced database technologies to enhance data storage and processing capabilities
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and consistency; collaborate with the infrastructure team to plan and execute deployments
• Lead and manage integration projects, including:

- LiveRamp XMI Integration and Salesforce integration

- Additional clean rooms (AWS/AMC) modeling integration

- CAPI integrations with walled gardens on behalf of brands

- MadConnect integration pipes and buildout

- Opening new integration channels based on client demand

Your Qualifications:

• 6 or more years of experience as a back-end data/software engineer utilizing various data technologies, with proficiency in SQL, Python, and Javascript (Node.js)
• 2 or more years of hands-on experience with Snowflake ecosystem, including expert knowledge of SnowPipes, Streams, Views, performance tuning, data modeling, ELT pipelines, data visualizations, and standard DWH concepts, and experience implementing complex SQL stored procedures
• Minimum 3 years' experience with various AWS cloud technologies and data lake management, such as S3, Lambda, Airflow, Redshift, Athena, and Glue
• Demonstrated knowledge of data clean room technologies, such as creating secure data shares using RBAC. Knowledge of Snowflake Native apps (v6+) preferred
• Knowledge of all aspects of the SDLC as well as experience with Jenkins and setting up CI/CD processes
• Experience with security concepts such as CCPA, GDPR, SSO, and JWT
• Proficiency in data access controls, including aggregation constraints, projection policies, row access policies, column masking, and differential privacy; knowledge of data controls including semantic models, dbt, Honeydew, Iceberg tables, various catalogs (Glue, REST, Nessie, Hadoop, etc.), and catalog syncing concepts
• Experience with cloud environments such as Snowflake, AWS, Databricks, LiveRamp, and GCP
• Familiarity with BI tools such as Thoughtspot, Sigma, Domo, Looker, Quicksights, and Tableau; detailed knowledge of AI concepts such as Generative AI chatbots, Cortex Analyst, agent training, LLMs, and prompt engineering
• Experience in modeling: e.g., Snowpark ML, TensorFlow
• Expertise building and maintaining APIs; Swagger/OpenAPI spec, Node, and Next.js a plus

Salary Range: $145,000 – $160,000

Office hours: 9am – 5:30pm

Benefits for full-time employees of Affinity Solutions begin on the first of the month following your date of hire with a generous employer contribution for medical, dental, and vision. In addition to company paid holidays, wellness time off, other wellness benefits, and employee discounts, you will also get employer paid life insurance and have the option to enroll into an employer-matched 401K Plan. We strongly encourage work/life balance by providing unlimited vacation days, available starting 90 days from your hire date as a team member.